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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
BEHIND THE SCENES.
A Respectable Married Lady Picked Up in
a Drunken Condition.

Respectable Married Lady Picked Up In
Drunken Condition.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
'Please, sir; am sick. Do not arrest
me, for Gods sake!"
| These were words uttered in the most
supplicating tones by a fashionable,
dressed lady who stood in font of the
Lieutenant's desk at Central station last
night. She was evidently respectfully,
and was sttired in a neat fitting, tailor
made costume of the latest pattern, and
her every action bespoke tae lady. A
beautiful diamond-set ring soerkIed on a
finger of her left hand and sCl'taires most
brilliant shone respondent ON her ear
drops.
SHE WAS INTOXICATED.
She moved back and forth aud grasped
the desk to prevent falling. Her fingers
not Officer John Kratz grs ped her she
would have tOppled to the e or.
The sight was touching. one of those
sad affairs-a peep behind the scenes
The poor woman was la<tily taken
from in front of those who stood
gaping at her and removed
~ tAlC SCAl-4OOh' 1uC1C euc gave uSI
name to Lieutenant Rakel as Trs Maggie
Meyer, and her residence as No. 144 Barr
street. She begged that I 9 matter be
kept quiet, even in her condi ion realizing
the disgrace which might be hcought upon
herself and family. She hau been found
in the yard of residence near the corner
of John and George street,. She was
wandering about when discovered. A
PATROL-WAGON WAS CALLED
before any inquiries were made and she
was taken to the station house.
As near as can be learned the young
woman but recently arrived in this city.
Her husband is connected with the Gin
cinnsti, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad,
in lucrative position, and they were
married few years ago in Dayton, Ohio. |
She had been shopping during the after
noon, and had called upon several lady !
friends. At each plscs little bit of |
wine was INDUCED in, and the result |
was that, being unaccustomed to stimu- |
ants, she became intoxicated. In the |
,ell-rOom she became destiny sick, and |
he heat Of the place infsmed her brain.
She in turns raved and begged tina. her
husband be sent for, and again that moth
ne be said and che be permitted to 60
rec. Her condition was certainly pitiable.
she was kept locked up until she became
ODER, when. policeman escorted her to
er residence.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Sirup of Figs

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most easily taken and the most pleasantly
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bitual constipation, Indigestion, etc. For
sale in 80 cents and 81 bottles by King &
Voigt, druggists, Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Paris Court Notes,
Special to the Gazette.

cUtCIHI % LIIU NtIAtILE.
PARIS, TEX, April 30.-The District
court only disposed of two cases to-day.
The first was Jim Harrison, tried for
robbery and given two years in the peni-
Tertiary. The next was John Connell,
for an assault with intent to murder. He
was sent TO the penltentiAry for two
! ears.
The case of L a. Petrie, which occu-
pied most Of the day Yesterday, in which
he was charged with. an assault with in
tent 70 murder J. X. Powell last Septem-
her when he shot and BILLED Dave Moore,
was given the jury about 10 O'Clock and
they soon returned verGics OF not guilty.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
StuDg by a TarantuIa.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 30.-Bridget Nor
gan while engaged last night in cutting
some bananas from huge bunch, was
severely stung in the right thumb by 8
tarantula, which was concealed in the
fruit. In short time the entire limo was
terrible swollen, while the pain was most
excruciating. The physicians are hope
ful of saving her life, but are by no
means confident of her recovery.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
TALK OF A SOCIALIST.

The Leader of the .'Reds" Predicts an Up
rising In 1889.
CHICAGO, ILL, April 26.-In connection
with the rumor of a projected combina-
ton of the three principal socialistic
organizations in this country-the Red
International, the Black International and
the Socialistic Labor Psrty-is is now
authoIitstively announced by an
orcan of the Socialists that
the leader of the "Reds" pro-
poses that there shall be an uprising in
1889. 1t is stated that there are now in
the country 100, 900 socialists, and that
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Knocked from a Car.
Special to the Gazette.

GREENyILLE, TEX, April 30.-A young
man by the name of Lee Cohn, living at
this place, while sitting on the platform
of car of one of the trains this morning,
with his feet hanging over, was struck by
g cattle gusrd and knocked of the train
and under the car, getting his head
bruised and otherwise seriously injured,
though not fatally.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
CLOTHTNG

BOOTS AND SHOES.
Mems kip boots for 50 worth 81; mems
kip boot for S. so worth SO; mems calf
boots for $3.50 worth $3.50.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Committed Without bail.

Specla. 10 the Gazette.
CALVERT, TEX, April 3O.-Cannon aud
Basset, charged with killing DR.. Offutt,
had a preliminary trial. occupying the
past three days. They were committed
to jail without bail.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03

The harder the work the less the pay.
Il this estimate is correct, and | believe il
is, the British Civil Service is to-day further
of being conducted ON business principles
than that of the United States. The dis
~crepancies in the salaries and the amount
OF work required if far greater. The ser
vice itself is inferior. The system has
created a race of BarnacleS on the one hand,
who are eucrusted ON the body politics,
and on the other a race OF wretched drudges
who do the work. These drudges, by Act
of Parliament, can neither be promoted,
nor have their pay increased, nor
pensiOned. The whole system is
a fraud upon the people. 1t has
been said that by means of the COMPETE
tive examination system, England sets a
steam hammer to crack u nut. Exactly!
But why? By demanding u costly exam
iuatiOn for clerks, these offices are reserved,
at good salaries, for the ''sOnS of gentle
men" rs they are called here. 1t is de-
nanded that men should know Latin and
Greek, and higher mathematics, and there
they are put for the rest Oftheir lives, add
ing little addition sums, idling over the
details of the Custom House returns, or
copying stereOtyped letters. 1t is literally
impossible to dislodge q lazy fellow or a
fool, and only for the most outrageous con-
duct can dismissal be brought about II
is useless to say that Civil Service employ
ees have no political influence. As a
rule they combine and throw their
strength TO the party that will strengthen
their position, and help them to increase
the barriers between the public and the
exclusive caste. not of office holders, but Of
Barnacles who believe they have IL divine
right to hang on forever TO the ship of state.
Compared with the army of Her Majesty's
BaruacleS, the men of either party in the
United States who believe in the doctrine
ITO the victor belong the spoils" appear
like open handed sons of toll. Bad az the
American system is it is far superior to the
British from every point of view...ro adopt
such a system would be q d~eathblOw to the
Republic. 1t would not only be up-Amer-
lean, but uncomfortable.
ROBERT p. PORTER.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03

This department of the Government is
considered the paradise for clerks. 1t has
been appropriately called q house of call to
gossip, and smoke, and read the morning
papers. They are not supposed to report
for duty here until l o'clock p. M, and
they adjourn at s. o'clock. This Office,
under the admirable British system, reeks
with corruption. There are men here
drawing So, 500, 81 900 and 81, 500 per an
nun as clerks, who have private fortunes
of their own. Many of them drive to the
Foreign office, on Downing street, in their
own b~roughams, chat over the news of the
day, and return home. For this they are
paid large salaries, while the numerous
army of ''Tenpenny writers" at $3.50 per
week, can always be depended upon to do
what little work is required. Two hours
steady work q day would break up a For
eign Office Barnacle in a few weeks. After
such a seige, sick leave for a month would
be imperative, TO build up his shattered
constitution. For example, the Queens
letters are written by Tenpenny clerks, at
p d.. five cents each, while the typical
Foreign Office clerk yawns over the Pail
MaH Guzete or Mayfair. When Charles
Marvin, who exposed the corruption which
hOneycombs the British Civil Service, was
employed rs a writer in the Foreign Office,
his pay was $40, and he had to translate
French, German and Russian into Engli-h,
and correspond in the principal modern
languages. But he vas only a Tenpenny
writer. The brainless clerks of the For
eign Office, most of them noodle sons OF
the nobility and influence, basked in a
sunshine of nothing to do, and were paid
81, 900 and $1,000 per annum, while the
head messenger got 81, 900 and the Treaty
messenger $3.50.
A few more questions yet remain to be
answered, but the space is very limited.
How does the pay of IA Government clerk,
under a system conducted on business
principles, compare with the salaries paid
for similar work by business men? | Dor
row Mr.. Marvin's figures. Taking the
standard of labor in the city of London as
representing 100, and the pay at $500, the
ratio of work and pay in the superb civil
service of Great Britain is as follows:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03

The underlying vice of the Bristish sys-
tenn is utter lack of ambition, and idleneSs.
The efforts 20 kill time take various forms
in the departments. In some, newspaper
reading. in Others, political discussions,
and in others, tipping. Many Ofthe Gov
eminent clerks, | am reliably Informed,
keep liuuor of all kinds in their desk, and
refresh themselves behind the lid. A man
has to be a confirmed drunkard indeed be-
fore YOU can dismiss him from the British
service, if he happens to be a clerk. The
work required of him being practically
nothing, his habits do not interfere with
that, and his associates, rs a rule, make no
complaints. The heads of the depart
ments have no authority over
the clerks, for they come
and 90, but the Barnaclea go on for ever.
No supervisory visits are ever paid to any
branch of the service, and the clerks who
cannot be removed are masters of the sit
uation, and ~ arule, laws unto themselves.
Whenever a squirt Of work comes on,
enough '"Tenpenuy writers are put on to
do il. This beautiful system, which the
United States Government Is asked to
enables an old dotard, yersed IN the
art of killing time, aud who hangs to his
most long enough TO draw 81, 500 a year and
a pension some day, while the men be em-
10 do the work can never make more
than $500 a year, and when they have
snent their life in the service Of the gov
they are kicked out pennies.
The only evidence that a Barnacle has
been at the office during the day is the
time sheet, which in some of the depart
he signs at ten o'clock, and again at
O'Clock. At Somerset House he Is not
even required to do this. The signing
off, is dispensed with. After ~appepding
his initials to the sheet at 1920 q, NJ, she
clerk can 30 away the rest of the day, and
not come back till the morrow. At the
Foreign Office no attendance list whatever
IS kept: and there q clerk can come when
be likes and stay away when he likes.
1t is said that our Washington clerks
abuse the leave given for sickness. | admit
this abuse, but the Barnacles A give htty
points in o hundred and beat them. These
controllers of London will take three
sick leave, and then as a matter OF
right, coolly walk of at the end OF it with
the regulation six weeks holiday granted
per year. Sick leave is never counted as
lost. A pimple, a sore throat, q
cold is enough to base an application
Tor sick leave. No doctors certificate Is
required, Is with Us. A clerk laid up for
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house, and was subsequently appointed as
a civil service writer in the British Gus
tom House, be merely applied his coun-
try house habits Of industry to the Gov
eminent work.
In q lew moments an angry voice sound
ed in his ear, For Gods sake man don't
work like that, you'll have the whole
Office against you, and you won't do your
self bit Of good"
Indeed" the newly-appointed writer
remarked.
YES, it's u fact. H has got to give
you the next book when you've done, and
he won't be ready for you before next Sat
urday."
At the rate he was workingth the new hand
could have finished the book that day,
which wa Monday, and hence the first
complicated question which arose under
this perfect system was how to kill the re-
naming five days. As a matter of fact,
much of the time OF a London Barnacle,
between the hours Of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m,
when he is supposed to be at work, isspent
reading the papers, taking short walks,
discussing the European and the Irish
questions. grumbling at the s~tinginess of
of the public and bewailing the working of
this perfect system. AS q rule the British
Government clerk is a man whose most Sc
riOus question in lite is how to kill time.
On the other hapd, the average Washing
ton clerk, and by that mean the clerks
who carry on the business of the Govern
ment. in the various departments, Is an in
dustrious, quick and energetic person, con-
stantly on the alert for promotion, and to
improve his or her condition.
To offset some Of the accounts Of the easy
times which Washington clerks have, let
me quote this actual description of a morn
ing scene in the British Custom House by
one of the clerks.
THE clerks and writers signed the time
sheet at 10 a. M. The ledgers were then
brought out, for sake OF appearances, and
afterwards everybody buried himself be-
hind a newspaper till eleven o'clock. II
the morning news happened to be an excit-
ing or contentious nature, Old Chut's
head would rise like a harvest 400 above
his desk, and would start a discussion in
which Barnacles and writers would freely
and promiscuOusly join until the subject
was exhausted. Some of the Barnacles
would then 90 down to the bar to have a
wet or VISIT other Barnacles, Staying for
fame and fortune in the six other offices,
side by side Old Chuff's rOokery."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03
True, but Remarkable.
ROBERT p. PORTER.

DuhOtl DcG.
''YeS, I'm from Dakota" he said meek,
ly, as he got into conversation with a nan
on an Eastern train.
"Ah, is that 50? | am thinking of go
ing out there myself to invest in some
farming land"
I'VE have some very fine land"
80 | understand, but are not some OF
the stories they tell of its fertility exag-
gerated?"
why, my friend, | am sorry to say
some of them are downright untruths."
That's what thought Now, what is
the most remarkable instance of the fertil-
ity of Dakota soil which ever came under
your observation"
well, l believe the csse of my pump
might 90 at the head of the list"
"What was it?"
IL dug a we'll about 40 feet deep the first
season ! was there and put down a wooden
pump. 1t happened that it was made out
of a small cottonwood loS which vas a lit
tie green, and the soil at the bottom of
that we'll, 40 feet from the surface, was so
fertile that the pump took root, and it
also grew up and branched out, and now
while my children play in y swing at
tached to one OF the branches l pump
water through the hole which still remains
in the trunk"
do you tell that for the TRUTH"
"Why, certainly, sir; l never tell any
thing else"
Are you in farming or the real estate
"Yby, Pm engaged in neither, my
neither. I'm a preacher. ] went
out there as a missionary seven years ago,
and though my work has been humble, |
trust it has had a beneficial influence on
our people"
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After that a little d~esultOry work is
done, alternating with newspaper reading
and talk. At half past twelve the Barna-
cles 20 To lunch in sections, and the office
does not settle again until two o'clock.
At q quarter to four o'clock they begin TO
wash, and before the clock strikes the
hour of four they are on the streets, the
Herculean labOrs of the day ended.
All this seems very strange, in face of
the statements that promotions are made
in the English civil service. This am as
sured is a fiction. A large portion of the
real work OF the Department in England
il done by what are known as WRITERS
who are paid thirty shillings, or about
81. 30 per week. These men are employed
by the hour, and temporary tenpenny,'
AS he is called, is banded about like q
Shuttlecock from one department to an
other. No matter how much ability these
men have, they never rise, and some Of
them have been known to remain thirty
years in the service at this rate. Marvin, the
author of 'Our Public Officers" declares
that merit is a term not recognized in the
Civil Service OF Great Britain. Advance
meut above the line proceeds by means OF
seniority, incessant reorganization or in
lluenre. The sys em he says, puts a pre-
MUM on incapacity; and If it makes Il mis-
take now and again in getting rid of Il maj
OF merit, it always sticks fast to its
noodles" Ii Oue-half what Marvin says is
true about the British Barnacle, with the
single exception of the Postotfice Depart,
meut, where he seems obliged to work, the
clerks and writers are an idle, somewhat
dissolutc set, with no ambition. Their
salaries are 80 equitably arranged that
.ome noodle, nominally in charge of the
office, draws l,5OO and 81, 600 Il year,
while the men who really do the work,
aud are sometimes the actual managers Of
the divisions, are paid about 800 a year.
Ga this point the same authority says:
In the Baruacle's profession the higher Il
clerk mounts in rank, the less he has to
do. The chief clerk, as a rule, is afxture
that does nothing at all. In the public
service the more pay implies the less work.
until a stage is at last reached where the
only onerOus duty devolving on a clerk is
10 sign the quarterly receipt for his $1,000
or $40, 900 per annum.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03

The Somerset House young man in this
letter refers to the typical Government
clerk in the various departments of the
British Government in London. | am, of
course, aware that Somerset House is only
one of many branches, including the Gus
tom House. the Foreign Office, the Wa
Office, the House of Guards, the Admiral
", the Treasury, the Board of Trade, the
Local Government Board and various other
offices. The American public has been
taught TO believe, by those afflicted with
Auglo-manil in the United States, that
the English have not only established the
true science OF political economy, but like
wise perfected a system of civil service
Under this wonderful system the depart
ments OF the Government are conducted on
true business principles. The clerks are
energetic and Industrious, because they
know that true merit brings its own re-
ward. Fayoritism Is unknown. A -Four
penny hoy clerk earning tourpence, or
eight cents, an hour OF ''renpenny' low
est Grade OF civil service writer, earning
tenpeace, or twenty cents, an hour in due
time. by industry and ability, rises
throug the various grades until the ding
nov OF the lcowSy, iuk-beSpattered Gus
tom House in the East End emerges into
the CAV and festive Foreign Otice clerk Of
MAYFAIR.
What an efficient service this admirable
system gives the public. There is zone OF
THE public be darnel'' style about the
English officials which IS said to character
lie the civil servants OF the predominant
party in our own republic, for example.
A. promotions come alone by merit, the
Government official here is not only indus
trlous but polite 10 the great public. Then
again. salaries are not a mere matter OF ac'
cidput. but are arranged on a plan OF abso-
lutte LIirneSS, by which the man doing the
most efficient work receives the highest
salary. Under this perfect system public
servants lead a happy and cOntentcd life.
On the other hand, the public, knowing
how industrious their servants are, and
feeling certain that all promotions are
male Tor merit only, DO not speak dlsre
spectfully Of this class Of people, rs We do,
and term them office holders with a sneer.
On the contrary, they are known by the
endeariug term of Her Majcsty'S Karna-
pIpz
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